Pictures of home
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- FluffyHeads Rule !
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A pic of old hotel where we used to camp its vicinity and ghost hunt most weekends. Very close to where our house is.
Later on became a place where we performed fraternity initiation rites back in university days.
Here is the history
In 1911, the Dominican Order made plans for the construction of a vacation house on top of the Dominican Hill. Construction is said to have started in 1913 and was supervised by a priest. Since there would be no taxes to pay, Catholic school was opened in June 1915 but was closed after two years because of lack of students. The building was then reverted to its original purpose, as a vacation house and as a sanatorium. During World War II, the people fleeing from the Japanese sought refuge within its walls. The Japanese bombed the building and its surroundings. It underwent a reconstruction in 1947 and was finished a year after.
In 1973 the old convent was remodeled into a 33-bedroom hotel. Managed by a Filipino faith healer where he performed surgeries using bear hands to his conscious patient leaving no trace of incision. I guess lots of voodoo stuff happened back then. The hotel closed down when the faith healer died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1982. It was declared off-limits to visitors. However, curious sightseers still managed to get into the building.
Up to this date the Hotel is still there. Frequently visited by tourist from other parts of of Philippines. You can’t see kids going up there anymore as they are all busy with their iPads.
Pictures of home - The Early Days...
Bingley:
Harden:
Eldwick:
Ilkley:
There were more in Bradford, but they were pre-internet and it seems they've gone now.
A later favourite, Boston:
There were many more - lost to a hazy daze.
Haven't been home since I came here - gave it up shortly after I got off the plane at Pochentong. Miss it some days.
Bingley:
Harden:
Eldwick:
Ilkley:
There were more in Bradford, but they were pre-internet and it seems they've gone now.
A later favourite, Boston:
There were many more - lost to a hazy daze.
Haven't been home since I came here - gave it up shortly after I got off the plane at Pochentong. Miss it some days.
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- 440 is my only social life
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What's up, petal?
The 440 machine would be that that simply wants page views no matter who gets damaged and in whatever way.
The autistic Google savant now feeding on the dead is also goer, I see. That's a cutesy little snapshot of what one corner the 440 home kennel looks like these days.
More home for me:
Almscliffe
Cow and Calf
Otley Chevin
Shipley Glen
To the Peak:
Lawrencefield
Stanage - High Neb
Burbage valley
Froggat
Millstone
The 440 machine would be that that simply wants page views no matter who gets damaged and in whatever way.
The autistic Google savant now feeding on the dead is also goer, I see. That's a cutesy little snapshot of what one corner the 440 home kennel looks like these days.
More home for me:
Almscliffe
Cow and Calf
Otley Chevin
Shipley Glen
To the Peak:
Lawrencefield
Stanage - High Neb
Burbage valley
Froggat
Millstone
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- MerkinMaker
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Come on, not all of you grew up in such nice places, if you did why did you end up here? Most of you are from dives, fess up! I'll get the ball rolling.
I grew up in Bradley Stoke in Bristol which at the time the largest housing estate in Europe and probably also the least stimulating. In the 90's it was affectionately know as 'Sadly Broke' as it was left half built after the recession and most residents were in negative equity.
Just mile after mile of houses in every direction. 30,000 people, three shops, three pubs and a supermarket. It was a new development so the population was young and there was absolutely zero sense of community. Hoards of teenagers, no facilities, no community, you can guess the rest.
If you were poor you lived in one of these:
If you were less poor you lived in one of these:
If you were rich, you lived in one of these:
Saldy Broke:
It's changed a lot since then, the town was completed in the 2000's and a house price boom in Bristol changed the demographics, but it's still as dull as ever.
I grew up in Bradley Stoke in Bristol which at the time the largest housing estate in Europe and probably also the least stimulating. In the 90's it was affectionately know as 'Sadly Broke' as it was left half built after the recession and most residents were in negative equity.
Just mile after mile of houses in every direction. 30,000 people, three shops, three pubs and a supermarket. It was a new development so the population was young and there was absolutely zero sense of community. Hoards of teenagers, no facilities, no community, you can guess the rest.
If you were poor you lived in one of these:
If you were less poor you lived in one of these:
If you were rich, you lived in one of these:
Saldy Broke:
It's changed a lot since then, the town was completed in the 2000's and a house price boom in Bristol changed the demographics, but it's still as dull as ever.
All the lead from the roof of Church of all Saints at Houghton Conquest was stolen in 2018.
All 21 tonnes of it.
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